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Resonance vs. Timbre — What's the Difference?

Resonance vs. Timbre — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Resonance and Timbre

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Resonance

Resonance describes the phenomenon of increased amplitude that occurs when the frequency of a periodically applied force (or a Fourier component of it) is equal or close to a natural frequency of the system on which it acts. When an oscillating force is applied at a resonant frequency of a dynamic system, the system will oscillate at a higher amplitude than when the same force is applied at other, non-resonant frequencies.Frequencies at which the response amplitude is a relative maximum are also known as resonant frequencies or resonance frequencies of the system.

Timbre

In music, timbre ( TAM-bər, TIM-), also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone. Timbre distinguishes different types of sound production, such as choir voices and musical instruments.

Resonance

Intensification and prolongation of sound, especially of a musical tone, produced by sympathetic vibration.

Timbre

The combination of qualities of a sound that distinguishes it from other sounds of the same pitch and volume.

Resonance

Intensification of vocal tones during articulation, as by the air cavities of the mouth and nasal passages.
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Timbre

Distinctive character
The timbre of the painter's work.

Resonance

(Medicine) The sound produced by diagnostic percussion of the normal chest.

Timbre

The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume.

Resonance

Richness or significance, especially in evoking an association or strong emotion
"Israel, gateway to Mecca, is of course a land of religious resonance and geopolitical significance" (James Wolcott).

Timbre

The pitch of a sound as heard by the ear, described relative to its absolute pitch.
When someone speaks after inhaling helium, his voice has a higher timbre. With sulfur hexafluoride, the result is a lower timbre.

Resonance

(Physics) The increase in amplitude of oscillation of an electric or mechanical system exposed to a periodic force whose frequency is equal or very close to the natural undamped frequency of the system.

Timbre

(heraldry) The crest on a coat of arms.

Resonance

(Physics) A subatomic particle having too short a lifetime to be observed directly and whose existence is inferred from a peak in the energy distribution of its decay products.

Timbre

See 1st Timber.

Resonance

(Chemistry) The property of a compound having simultaneously the characteristics of two or more structural forms that differ only in the distribution of electrons. Such compounds are highly stable and cannot be properly represented by a single structural formula.

Timbre

The crest on a coat of arms.

Resonance

(uncountable) The quality of being resonant.

Timbre

The quality or tone distinguishing voices or instruments; tone color; clang tint; as, the timbre of the voice; the timbre of a violin. See Tone, and Partial tones, under Partial.

Resonance

(countable) A resonant sound, echo, or reverberation, such as that produced by blowing over the top of a bottle.

Timbre

(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound);
The timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely
The muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet

Resonance

(medicine) The sound produced by a hollow body part such as the chest cavity upon auscultation, especially that produced while the patient is speaking.

Resonance

(figuratively) Something that evokes an association, or a strong emotion; something that strikes a chord.
Emotional resonance

Resonance

(physics) The increase in the amplitude of an oscillation of a system under the influence of a periodic force whose frequency is close to that of the system's natural frequency.

Resonance

(nuclear physics) A short-lived subatomic particle or state of atomic excitation that results from the collision of atomic particles.

Resonance

An increase in the strength or duration of a musical tone produced by sympathetic vibration.

Resonance

(chemistry) The property of a compound that can be visualized as having two structures differing only in the distribution of electrons.

Resonance

(astronomy) A influence of the gravitational forces of one orbiting object on the orbit of another, causing periodic perturbations.

Resonance

(electronics) The condition where the inductive and capacitive reactances have equal magnitude.

Resonance

(sociology) A quality of human relationship with the world.

Resonance

The act of resounding; the quality or state of being resonant.

Resonance

A prolongation or increase of any sound, either by reflection, as in a cavern or apartment the walls of which are not distant enough to return a distinct echo, or by the production of vibrations in other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies of musical instruments.

Resonance

A phenomenon in which a vibration or other cyclic process (such as tide cycles) of large amplitude is produced by smaller impulses, when the frequency of the external impulses is close to that of the natural cycling frequency of the process in that system.

Resonance

An electric phenomenon corresponding to that of acoustic resonance, due to the existance of certain relations of the capacity, inductance, resistance, and frequency of an alternating circuit; the tuning of a radio transmitter or receiver to send or detect waves of specific frequencies depends on this phenomenon.

Resonance

An excited state of a stable particle causing a sharp maximum in the probability of absorption of electromagnetic radiation

Resonance

A vibration of large amplitude produced by a relatively small vibration near the same frequency of vibration as the natural frequency of the resonating system

Resonance

Having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant

Resonance

Relation of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people

Resonance

The quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities

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